Scenario-based design and validation of REST web service compositions

  • Irum Rauf
  • , Faezeh Siavashi
  • , Dragos Truscan
  • , Ivan Porres

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Abstract

We present an approach to design and validate RESTful composite web services based on user scenarios. We use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to specify the requirements, behavior and published resources of each web service. In our approach, a service can invoke other services and exhibit complex and timed behavior while still complying with the REST architectural style. We specify user scenarios via UML Sequence Diagrams. The service specifications are transformed into UPPAAL timed automata for verification and test generation. The service requirements are propagated to the UPPAAL timed automata during the transformation. Their reachability is verified in UPPAAL and they are used for computing coverage level during test generation. We validate our approach with a case study of a holiday booking web service.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Information Systems and Technologies - 10th International Conference, WEBIST 2014, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsValérie Monfort, Karl-Heinz Krempels
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages145-160
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319270296
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 3 Apr 20145 Apr 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume226
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period3/04/145/04/14

Keywords

  • Model-based testing
  • REST
  • TRON
  • UPPAAL
  • Web service composition

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